Jake Stika has left the building, and now its down to two interns. Yesterday afternoon I said farewell to Jake as he boarded a bus to the airport to spend the next few days in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo before making the long trip home. I have to say I'm sad to see him go, he's a great guy not to mention my sushi partner ! Wednesday we had a fabulous farewell dinner at Villa's
a Brazilian Barbeque, same idea as Copacabana in Niagara Falls, but much more reasonably priced and the meat is better in my opinion. It was so much fun and everyone made it out to say goodbye even some of the student from IFBA who had been teaching us english, however, I was forced to try LAMB !!! First of all I barely even eat beef (mature beef, never babies) and second of all I think lambs are adorable and I vowed to never eat them... but then you come to Brazil and they tease you until you try and then video tape my first experience... !!! It was gross by the way, it had the oddest flavour and a horrible texture, never again people, I hope your satisfied. Oh and there was this divine mint jelly that they add to the lamb, luckily the piece with that on it was taken by the waiter hahaha :D
So here I am all by my lonesome, well Keaton is here but regardless we are still one man down. I am not sure what I am going to do with myself for the next two weeks of my stay here, most my Brazilian friends are traveling but hopefully I will find something to do, any suggestions ?? I have downloaded season 3 of Sex and the City so that should help with some of the boredom haha ;)
Tchau for now !
Friday 15 July 2011
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Visitors from the North
Well I suppose it's safe to say I am officially missing home. I do love it here but I think 3 months is just enough time (for now, I mean I hope to come back !). On thursday Keaton, Jake and I met up with Jos and a teacher from Niagara who teaches a course called Go Global Live Local and she is taking her student here to Salvador next May ! We had a lovely dinner at the Hotel followed by a full day of meetings at IFBA on Friday. Friday night we all went for dinner again and had a great time, I think Jos helped me decide what to do when I graduate haha Thank you Jos !
Sunday was amazing ! Bora Bahia !!!!! We saw our first Brazilian soccer game !! It was so much fun the energy was great, you could choose where you sat in the Stadium. If you were a wild fan you could sit with the other wild fans, if not you sat somewhere else. Overall Sunday was the greatest day in a long time, sun was shinning and I even got myself a Bahia jersey :)
Monday me and Jake did some more touring of Salvador with our favourite German friend Fabian. We went to see Bon Fim a famous healing church that has been known to have miracle healing powers for those with illness. I can never get over the beautiful churches with such amazing stories here and the amount of churches ! The religious presence is predominantly roman catholic brought over by the Portuguese, however the African slaves that were brought here by the Portuguese (3 million of them to be exact) have kept their religion presence called Candomblé and integrated it into the Catholic religion. Definitely one of the biggest attractions of Salvador is history of religion and culture and the movement from Slavery to liberty and the history of the natives. After touring the church we got some ice cream at a famous place by a sort of marina with old ships then it was off to the Market to barter our way to cheaper brazilian soccer jerseys, which did NOT work to our advantage, in fact Jack got thoroughly robbed, twice. Poor guy. The markets in Rio were much easier to bargain with let me tell you !
Wednesday we (the interns) and our Brazilian friends are all meeting at a Brazilian BBQ Restaurant to say goodbye to Jake who leaves Thursday, we will all miss you Jake !! Then shortly after his departure keaton and I leave on August 1st ! I am excited to get home but I will definitely miss all my friends here, but don't worry I will be back !
Tchau for now !
Sunday was amazing ! Bora Bahia !!!!! We saw our first Brazilian soccer game !! It was so much fun the energy was great, you could choose where you sat in the Stadium. If you were a wild fan you could sit with the other wild fans, if not you sat somewhere else. Overall Sunday was the greatest day in a long time, sun was shinning and I even got myself a Bahia jersey :)
Monday me and Jake did some more touring of Salvador with our favourite German friend Fabian. We went to see Bon Fim a famous healing church that has been known to have miracle healing powers for those with illness. I can never get over the beautiful churches with such amazing stories here and the amount of churches ! The religious presence is predominantly roman catholic brought over by the Portuguese, however the African slaves that were brought here by the Portuguese (3 million of them to be exact) have kept their religion presence called Candomblé and integrated it into the Catholic religion. Definitely one of the biggest attractions of Salvador is history of religion and culture and the movement from Slavery to liberty and the history of the natives. After touring the church we got some ice cream at a famous place by a sort of marina with old ships then it was off to the Market to barter our way to cheaper brazilian soccer jerseys, which did NOT work to our advantage, in fact Jack got thoroughly robbed, twice. Poor guy. The markets in Rio were much easier to bargain with let me tell you !
Wednesday we (the interns) and our Brazilian friends are all meeting at a Brazilian BBQ Restaurant to say goodbye to Jake who leaves Thursday, we will all miss you Jake !! Then shortly after his departure keaton and I leave on August 1st ! I am excited to get home but I will definitely miss all my friends here, but don't worry I will be back !
Tchau for now !
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